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Thousands of skis and white hoods have been sent into Russia. Furs have been collected from all Europe, and German furriers have been given special concessions so they can supply the army. All portable stoves in shops and factories have been ordered to Russia. Preparations are afoot to send 40 million pounds of bread weekly, ten million pounds of meat, 30 million pounds of potatoes to keep German soldiers well...
...townsmen who live in 2,300 communities without trolley cars or busses travel afoot on nearly all occasions...
Like every other naval job in his 39-year naval career, Planner Ghormley's program for battle was a model of carefully thought planning, astute execution, use of every tool he had within reach. This time Douglas MacArthur in Australia knew what was afoot, as he did not in the Battle of the Coral Sea; he was enlisted by his opposite number in New Zealand to join in the first fully planned big-scale battle cooperation of U.S. Army and Navy in World...
...Harbor, the Army sealed Alaska in a drum-tight censorship. The U.S. could only speculate on how many men and how much equipment at West Coast ports were being nastily diverted northward, how much reinforcement had been received from the battle-trained Royal Canadian Air Force, what preparations were afoot to dislodge the Japs. Plain to see was that, although Japan had paid a heavy price for its Aleutian foothold, if the U.S. intended to kick the Jap out, the U.S., too, would...
Franco admitted Spain's dissatisfaction last week. "Interests are still afoot working against us," cried he, adding that Spain could mobilize 1,300,000 fully equipped crusaders to fight Communism...